Fedora Project leaders have banned a popular penetration-testing tool from their repository out of concern it could saddle the organization with legal burdens.
The move came on Monday in a unanimous vote by the Fedora Project's board of directors rejecting a request that SQLNinja be added to the archive of open-source …

@Destroy All Monsters

No need to get melodramatic...

SQLNinja only tests SQL injection on MS-SQL servers. Which isn't something that is even available on Fedora. So why include it as a Fedora package?

If you don't want criminals and three-letter agencies to own your data, make it secure to begin. Just like the Google streetview war driving scandal. Everyone is outraged by what Google did, but no one seems a bit concerned that those APs are wide open, and are still open today.

@Author

Axe to grind much?

SQLNinja is marketed as more of an skiddie tool than a pentest tool - describing it as "a popular penetration-testing tool" is rather disingenuous. Sure, it /can/ be used for that, but that's not how it's marketed, and it's hardly popular among security professionals.

Fedora does not package every single piece of FOSS GNU/Linux software in the world, and does not aim to. All I see is an author with some sort of personal problem here.